Poems from the Scraps of Faith collection of poems, dealing with history / historical figures …
* Herr Generalfeldmarschall Rommel Takes Cyanide (about the German World War II general Erwin Rommel);
* The Bushman Speaks (about the African Bushmen, of the Kalahari Desert)
* John Brown (19th century U.S. abolitionist)
* The Draft (my own experience with the U.S. Army military draft in 1971)
* A Poem of the Millennium (including St. Francis of Assisi, Peter Abelard, Martin Luther, Shakespeare, Voltaire, George Washington, Vincent Van Gogh, and Robert Oppenheimer)
Other kinds of poems: meaning-of-life/spirituality